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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Transforming Tangrams

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The student will use the transformations - rotation, reflection, translation - to create common shapes from tangram pattern blocks
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Congruent and Similar Figures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan where students learn about congruent and similar figures by viewing models and by using geoboards, pattern blocks, and the Internet. (Note: Lesson cited in the procedures cannot be found at the link provided.)
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Filling the Shadow

For Teachers 1st Standards
Variety is the spice of life and the concept of the day as students fill the same pattern block outline three different ways.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Assessing Composing and Decomposing Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
Knowledge in Action! Today you will find out if the students are understanding the idea of decomposing and composing shapes with pattern blocks.
Activity
Other

Rhythm Web: Clave Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn and practice typical rhythm patterns for the claves. The rhythms are written out in block patterns and are accompanied by midi examples.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Bricks Activity, Teacher Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Builders of brick walls need to be especially aware of fault lines which can easily lead to the collapse of the wall. Middle schoolers are challenged, here, to use polyminoes to design patterns for brick walls which do not contain fault...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometric Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
In this instructional activity, students will create a class quilt of nine patch paper quilt blocks using geometry.
Activity
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Red Escolar: Serpientes De Numeros

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In Spanish. Find the hidden sequence of numbers and color by following the given clues.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Young scholars will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2...
Article
Other

Playdough to Plato: First Grade Stem Activities

For Teachers K - 1st
This blog contains challenging STEM activities you can use to build confidence and take your teaching to the next level. Included are science, math, technology, and engineering activities.
Activity
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Polyominoes Fun With Dominoes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For students who have ever played dominoes and Tetris, polyominoes will strike them as a great deal of fun. Teachers will see the educational benefits of working with similar and congruent shapes and rotating them in a plane. Exploration...
Interactive
Antonio Salinas and Maria Jesus Egea

Vedoque: Puntos

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Try to repeat the same drawing as the model in this game. Different levels of difficulty are provided.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Tessellation Tutorials

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides a wealth of tutorials regarding tessellation. Content ranges from basic definitions of what tessellation is, to the math behind it, to various learning activities.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fraction Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will participate in a hands-on instructional activity about dividing a whole object into parts. They will also practice simple addition.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Multilink Sequences Algebra

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students are presented with various shapes made up of a sequence of individual blocks. Students apply reason to predict the number of shapes needed to extend the series.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Testing Fundamental Loads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students break foam insulation blocks by...
Handout
Other

Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
Website
Other

Swing What Is It?

For Students 9th - 10th
Through block notation, this page attempts to bring into focus the concept of swing patterns. The swing patterns are accompanied by various midi files.
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Towers Problem

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build as many different looking towers as is possible, each exactly four cubes high using two colors of Unifix Cubes. Convince yourself and others that you have found all possible towers four cubes high and that you have no duplicates.
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Drainage Lines of the Eastern Adirondacks, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A contour map from the vicinity of Elizabethtown showing the rectangular pattern of relief and drainage lines in fault-block mountains of the eastern Adirondacks.
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Trans Pecos Highlands, Texas, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A contour map from 1911 of a fault-block mountain in the Trans-Pecos Highlands, Texas, showing typical relief and drainage patterns.

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